The first time I tried installing an AirPort card in a PowerBook, I
neglected to connect the antenna lead to the card.
The PB would pick up a base station within ~1m. Any further than that,
and it'd fail to pick up the connection. Given that the range of the
Airport is supposed to be ~50m, that's a pretty awful bit of news.
This applies to the thread in that you'd have to not only "retrofit" one
of your pcmcia slots to accept (only) an AirPort card, but you'd also have
to provide the antenna! With so many true pcmcia 802.11 solutions out
there that will (a) "fit" into the Newt and (b) not require an additional
antenna, I think the WaveLAN is a *way* better bet for "Wireless Access"
than an AirPort card.
Of course, since I'm completely unskilled in writing drivers for the Newt,
my opinion doesn't matter a whole lot. If someone wants to come up with
an AirPort solution for the Newt, I'd be thrilled! It just seems like
there are a lot of obstacles...
~Dustin
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, doppler wrote:
>
> james richter [paparichter_at_yahoo.com] wrote the following 2002-01-12 08.07:
>
> >> 3. Does the MP2100 require a certain wireless card
> >> to work with Airport base
> >> stations? If so what?
> >
> > No confirmed wireless at this time. There is a person
> > trying to write drivers for the Lucent WaveLan card.
> > They've had limited success with an alpha level
> > driver. You still have issues with an antenna.
>
>
> BTW, just came to think about a possible HW hack to the newt - what about
> adding a separate antenna? you could just get a std lucent antenna plug and
> use it w your card, but it would require a HW hack that im not sure will
> work out easily.
>
> ***the PCMCIA pins of an airport card are wired somewhat differently, ie two
> of the pins are deliberately switched, so that apple could keep it "apple
> only" - i know its stupid, but its also true****
>
> this way, i mean IF the HW hack will succed, you will have a dedicated
> airport PCMCIA slot which will not sport an excess antenna when idle. the
> downner here is that youll have to live with the fact that your newt will
> miss one expansion slot.
>
> anyone good at airport and/or PCMCIA?
>
> is this doable? is it difficult?
>
>
> doppler
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